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Evening folks, just making the foray into all grain brewing after spotting clibit's great thread. I've done a single malt pale and two ambers with pale malt / crystal and now fancy a Black IPA. Or a Cascadian dark ale if you prefer. I was thinking of 2kg of pale malt for a 10L batch and using...

Rodabod, how did this turn out? I fancy doing an AG Black IPA / Cascadian dark ale and wondered about the grain bill. Did you get any roastiness?

Okey coke. I did a bit of 'research' (entered Carared into Google [emoji6]) and it sounds like colour wise it is very close to Crystal? I might go for a bit of RB next time with a little less Crystal! Then AG 5 is likely to be a black IPA, once I figure out a 10L recipe. I'll start a new thread...

Clibit, thanks for the advice, I am going to try a bit of roasted barley (or perhaps carafa special?) in the next one. I've used carafa special to turn an IPA kit into a black IPA.

AG3 on the left, Youngs AAA on the right. Maybe it's an amber rather than red?

Well, down to 1.012 already and the sample tastes promising, if a little cloudy (Youngs AAA on the right, my AG on the left)

Just started this off tonight. Followed the kit instructions (first time I've read instructions for a while!) and ended up with 23L @ an OG of 1.050. Set it hung with the FV in a water bath wit aquarium heater, another first - I usually chuck it in the FV, but I think this should be a bit...

I've just bottled my first ever Wherry. I decided to substitute the supplies yeast door a pack of S-04 I had. I'd read a lot of posts about Wherry sticking so wanted to avoid it. It fermented from 1044 to 1012 in 10 days. I racked to a secondary and left it in the garage for 3 weeks as I was on...

Baggy bill - I got it from my father in law - he'd had it for years!

This has turned out rather good I bottled before I went on two weeks holiday and left it conditioning. I chucked a couple in the fridge when I hit back and tried one, but it had no carbonation! Trying another one tonight and it's lovely!

It's a browny/reddy/Amber. Do you have s good 10L grain bill for a red ale.

So! Just nearing the end of the boiled for my 3rd AG stovetop brew. Similar recipe to last time; 2 kg pale malt 0.25kg Crystal 16g Galena (13.2%) @ 60 mins 20g Galena@15mins 20g Galena @ flameout. I 'found' Galena when doing a Craft beer kitchen brew in December, so thought I'd try it as a...

In partnership with my local LHBS, Brewstore.

I have re-used easy kegs from my local microbrewery. One of the online homebrew shops sell new top stoppers, so so re-used to begin with and then bought new. I just used to treat them like big bottles, clean out, sanitise, prime with 10-15g sugar, rack the beer in - how to know you've left...

Here's s link to the one I bought. Very thin, but very cheap! http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=400601314534

I ended up with an SG of 1052, fermentating well underway this afternoon! I love an airlock plip plopping away!!

They were dead cheap in the LHBS, so thought I'll use them as my bittering hop. Thanks for the advice, I'll send you a bottle of it's any good :)

The Fuggles are only 4.1% Alpha Acid, so went with 30g as a gut feeling, and no science ;)

Aye, why not?! Should I add the Cascade later to get flavour/aroma rather than bitterness?

10L - got 14 or so in the boil pot, after letting the grain drain into my 5 L stock pot.